A final reply to the numerous slanders, circulated by Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., professor of the institutes and practice of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania / by Granville Sharp Pattison.

  • Pattison, Granville Sharp, 1791-1851.
Date:
1821
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Credit: A final reply to the numerous slanders, circulated by Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., professor of the institutes and practice of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania / by Granville Sharp Pattison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tance, to request me, to call upon her on my return to Glasgow. This! i to ' , as Palkirjc was in mj direct rout home, and as there was a detention 01 the passengers from liut- past 11 o'clock, the hour of their arrival, until 1 o'clock, the hour when they started for Glasgow. The visit was made open- )\, and not under any concealment. This evidence proves that I walked in a garden overlooked by the 'surrounding house*) with .Mr.*, lire, (see evi- dence p. 3>,) which no man would l*a»e done if conscious that -Mrs. Ure had separated from her husliand on account of adultery, alleged to have been committed by him. On my return to Glasgow, Dr. Ure met me and conti- nued to hold intercourse with me, as he had been wont to do previously to m\ visit to Paris. There was no enmity nor hostility expressed, and up to the very day *hich t le decree of divorce passed, his conduct was such a> to make me suppose that he was on the very best terms with me. ' On the 5th da) of February, lol9, the < cry day on which the bill of divorcement was grantee, I, for the first time, heard that I was suspected of a criminal intercourse with Mrs. Ure, and was told that an application had been made to the commissaries for a divorce, for adultery, alleged to have been committed by me. I immediately called on Dr. Ure for the purpose of ascer- taining whether there was any foundation in this report, but he being from home, I wrote to a writer to the signet in Edinburgh,* and requested him to call at the Consisvorial Court and ascertain whether such an ac ion had been entered. The moment 1 became satisfied of the fact, 1 left Glasgow for 'jEdiiibargh for the purpose of taking the advice of counsel. I saw Messrs. Jeffery and Cockburn, and was informed by them that I could not move in the. that I was no party in the case, and that the supposed paramour only became so in the second action, which usually followed in a case of this kind —the action for damages. That unless an action for damages is brought foivaru by Dr. Ure, and of this there was no chance in the present instance, it was impossible for me to appear in court. \ was advised to see Mrs. Ure, and ascertain her object in supporting her husband in this infamous transac- tion, and by showing her the ruin in which it would involve herself, to endea- vour to g-et her to send into court a reclaiming petition. Fearful that my seeing her ib v self might lead to a suspicion of an undue influence, having been gra- ph >\ etd, 1 directed my agent to wait upon her at her lodgings. Mrs. Ure, on my agent's visiting her, made a full confession of the collusion; Stated that she- had been induced to go into it, from promises made to her by her husband, and that as he had deceived her, and his promises had not, nor were likely to be fulfilled, she most readily consented to send into court a reclaiming petition. T.i.s, she herself, employed an agent to prepare, and gave up, forthe purpose of supporting i', several documents, among which, thexettjjh mentioned as a forgery, by Dr. Chapman, but which 1 shall sufficiently prove in the sequel, to have been age mine letter, and which of itself, is sufficient to prove that Dr. Ufa and his wife wen debased a& to be capable, of the most infamous of actions. The letter here mentioned, is on« of so infamous a character, and contains expressions so grossly indelicate, that it is not fit that it should be brdugbt before the public. Dr. Chapman, himieif, seems willing to admit, that if I can only prove Dr. Ure to be the author of this letter, that I am acquitted fk every charge. « Either** r.he observes) Dr. Ure w Mr. Pat the most coiuvmate of villains in ex '.-,.-.•.- the one or other wrote tJic 'ettefin aut the latter is found in possession oJ? it, and let him show how ,.•• o-ot >'. This I shall do in the sequel of this history, and in proof of it, I s Forward i mass of testimony so strong, so satisfactory, and so conclusive, that it nill force, even upon my enemies, an irresistible conviction oi the groundless nature of the charges brougH against my character. That I was most anxious that the reclaiming petition should ha-. » been sent in and supported by Mrs Urie^ I have no hesitaton to confess] It was in this J The writers to his Majesty's Signet are composed of the firs' clasn of Law- yers in Edmb !■;':: Mr. Burn, my agent, stands pre-eminen1 as :■ gentlemaa and a mac of aonor, • . , - i